Thoughts / Misc: October 2005 Archives

(Notes from the plane home from OOPSLA/RubyConf)

1) Irons in the fire:

• Dave Simmons of SmallScript fame wants to work on our system to produce ST80 bytecode from ruby.


• A number of people want to improve RI, hacks, and PT, esp for windows. This will help us get more people using them.


• John Lam is interested for his ruby/CLR bridge.


• A number of people wanted to look at ruby2ruby to do refactoring tools.


• Don Roberts/John Brandt are extending their current refactoring toolset to generate entire tool suites for other languages. We should bug them for ruby in a month or so.


• Made some good business contacts. Mainly consultants like Russ (bay area pattern's group

2) Potential new projects/demos:

• irb state saver (done, in 8 lines)


• r2yarv / r2st80 bytecode translator


• stock market toys/tools


• good demo on how to write refactoring tools for ruby


• fucking get over it and write a ruby parser/lexer, warts and all


• rubyholic website


• code coverage tool


• rule based tracing


• release zero2rails


• pure ruby PNG (maybe translatable to C)


• BFTS - new name of rubicon fork

Geoffrey was kind enough to slurp the following during my presentation yesterday.

the seattle.rb folks are hardcore

well rehearsed

these slides just rock... what a way to do demos

Best. Presentation. Ever.

i really hope he shares the presentation

this presentation totally wins the "most spontaneous applause" award

I am honored. Thank you all.

My presentation is done. I finished polishing it up just a minute ago. Eric's talk today went really really well. I'm jealous. His presentation was simpler to do, easier to give, and probably makes a lot more sense. Mine is gonna look like a drug addled nightmare in comparison.

I'm sooo sick of working on my presentation... I just want it over with. I tried to work on it yesterday. Really, I tried. I failed miserably.

Can we please just get the conference started already?